A candle, taper or night-light made of wax.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, 16 Aug. 1654. [Doncaster] a large faire towne, famous for greate wax-lights and good stockings.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, III. (1823), II. 154. There were many drops of white wax-lights on his breeches.
1798. Sophia Lee, Canterb. T., Young Ladys T., II. 134. Shades over the wax-lights softened the glare.
1828. Scott, Jrnl., 12 April (1891), 572. Tom S. said in a whisper, I advise you to secure a wax-light to go to bed with, shewing him a morsel which he had stolen from a sconce.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xx. IV. 535. Within the Abbey, nave, choir, and transept were in a blaze with innumerable waxlights.
1864. Kingsley, Roman & T., v. (1875), 129. The Emperor coming out to meet him with processions and wax-lights.
1870. Chamb. Jrnl., 16 April, 241/1. Visions of private sitting-rooms, wax-lights, bad wines, at once rise before his experienced eyes.